<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Ok Remi, and Jim, thanks...<br><br></div>Lee,<br><br><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Thats it,<br><br> the problem is</span> <span class="">that I get/receive a</span> <span class="">shape file</span> <span class="">with the following structure</span> <span class="">and</span> <span class="">need to</span> <span class="">use it</span> <span class="">to update</span> <span class="">my database</span><span>.</span><br><br> <span class="">But</span> <span class="">my database</span> <span class="">does not have the</span> <span class="">same</span> <span class="">file's structure</span><span class="">.</span></span><br><br><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">As mentioned above...<br><br></span></span></div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">tia<br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-04-18 15:14 GMT-03:00 Lee Hachadoorian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Lee.Hachadoorian+L@gmail.com" target="_blank">Lee.Hachadoorian+L@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Luciano,<br>
<br>
I think I'm not understanding your goal. Do you have a shapefile
that contains a mix of towns, neighborhoods, blocks and streets? Are
you trying to load the shapefile but break the features up so that
towns get inserted in a PostGIS towns table, neighborhoods get
inserted in a PostGIS neighborhoods table, etc.? <br>
<br>
Best,<br>
--Lee<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 04/18/2015 12:22 PM, James Keener
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I guess I'm still not fully understanding the problem.
I don't understand what problem the normalization is causing you.
You shouldn't need to duplicate the rows in different tables when
you duplicate one in another table.<br>
<br>
To edit fields in QGIS you need to enable editing on the layer and
then you can get end editable form for each feature or you can
edit directly in the attribute table. Copy and pasting features in
QGIS copied all of the attributes as well.<br>
<br>
Can you give a more complete example of the issue you're facing?<br>
<br>
Jim<br>
<br>
Jim<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On April 18, 2015 12:11:38 PM EDT,
Luciano <a href="mailto:br.analistagis@gmail.com" target="_blank"><br.analistagis@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<div><span lang="en"><span>Yes</span><span>, I'm using</span> <span>QGIS</span><span>.</span>
<span>I agree</span><span>,</span> <span>if I make a</span> <span>table</span>
<span>in the database</span> <span>with
the same structure</span> <span>the shape
file</span> <span>is simple.</span> <span>The</span> <span>copy / paste</span>
<span>works perfectly</span><span>.</span><br>
<span>But</span> <span>my question</span>
<span>is</span> <span>how to update</span>
<span>for example</span> <span>the</span>
<span>blocks</span> <span>table</span><span>,</span>
<span>using the</span> <span>copy /
paste,</span> <span>since</span> <span>the database</span> <span>structure
is</span> <span>different.</span><br>
<span>For example</span><span>,</span> <span>if I copy</span> <span>a polygon</span>
<span>layer</span> <span>shape</span><span>,</span>
<span>and try to</span> <span>stick
to the</span> <span>database</span> <span>layer</span><span>, the fields</span> <span>of the new</span> <span>polygon</span>
<span>will be</span> <span>void.</span><br>
<span>Note that</span> <span>my</span>
<span>database</span> <span>blocks</span>
<span>table does not have</span> <span>the same structure</span> <span>of
the</span> <span>shape file</span> <span>because it</span> <span>is</span> <span>normalized</span> <span>(or should
be</span><span>), so</span> <span>the fields</span>
<span>of</span> <span>two data
sources</span> <span>do not
match.</span><br>
<span>In this case</span><span>, what is the</span>
<span>best</span> <span>practice?<br>
<br>
</span></span></div>
<span lang="en"><span>tia<br>
</span></span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2015-04-18 12:44 GMT-03:00 James
Keener <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@jimkeener.com" target="_blank">jim@jimkeener.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">tl;dr:
Have you tried QGIS?<br>
<br>
What were you using to copy/paste before? I didn't
think straight<br>
editing of the DBaseIII files directly was a sane thing
to do, as<br>
they're linked up with the shape and shape-index files.<br>
<br>
PostGIS is just a PostgreSQL database, so any editor
that can allow you<br>
to edit/duplicate PostgreSQL tables could work. As for
mutating<br>
geometries, maybe QGIS? That would also allow you to
edit geometries,<br>
attributes, as well as duplicate features.<br>
<br>
Hope that helps,<br>
Jim<br>
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On 04/18/2015 11:39 AM, Luciano wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi,<br>
> I wonder how can I update a postgresql postgis
database before the<br>
> following scenario:<br>
> Always worked with shape files and update them
used copy / paste between<br>
> files.<br>
> Now, think about creating a database in
PostgreSQL and would like to<br>
> continue using copy / paste to update polygons,
but in my database<br>
> structure is different from the shape file. For
example:<br>
> Imagine that the shapefile have all the fields
in one table, already in<br>
> the database, by reason of standardization,
have these columns in tables<br>
> distinct. Below is an example of a register of
towns.<br>
><br>
> File shape, columns:<br>
> town code;<br>
> town description;<br>
> Neighborhood code;<br>
> name of the neighborhood;<br>
> block code;<br>
> Street code;<br>
> street name;<br>
><br>
> In Postgres / Gis could look like this:<br>
><br>
> Cities table (data):<br>
> - Town id<br>
> - Description of town<br>
><br>
> Neighborhoods table (data):<br>
> - Id of the neighborhood<br>
> - Description of the neighborhood<br>
> - Id of town (foreign key)<br>
><br>
> Blocks table:<br>
> - Id of the court<br>
> - Block of code<br>
> - Town id (foreign key)<br>
> - Geometry, polygon<br>
><br>
> Streets table:<br>
> - Street id<br>
> - Street name<br>
> - Town id (foreign key)<br>
> - Geometry, line<br>
><br>
> How could update (insert) a block in postgresql
table using copy / paste<br>
> the shape file?<br>
> Would have to create a trigger/procedure
(instead of) to automate the<br>
> process?<br>
> Fields of shape file should be equal to the
fields of database table?<br>
> Some practical example as a reference?<br>
><br>
> tia<br>
> --<br>
> Luciano<br>
><br>
><br>
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